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From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Use raw_local_irq_save/restore instead local_irq_save/restore
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:23:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4FBEDC.4000008@monstr.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3Po8XD3UFB-h6UH4HWtSZP9MA+V63TE5tQgku@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 19:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:49:50 +0200 Michal Simek wrote:
>>> start/stop_critical_timing function for preemptirqsoff, preemptoff
>>> and irqsoff tracers contains atomic_inc and atomic_dec operations.
>>>
>>> Atomic operations used local_irq_save/restore macros to ensure
>>> atomic access but they are traced by the same function which is causing
>>> recursion problem.
>>>
>>> The reason is when these tracers are turn ON then local_irq_save/restore
>>> macros are changed in include/linux/irqflags.h to call trace_hardirqs_on/off
>>> which call start/stop_critical_timing.
>>>
>>> Microblaze was affected because use generic atomic implementation.
>> Seems that this will also affect blackfin, mn10300 and score.  I guess
>> they aren't supporting tracing yet?
> 
> do you mean TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT ?  Blackfin should ... my
> understanding was that arches just needed to implement asm/irqflags.h
> for it.

Blackin uses own include/asm/atomic.h implementation where shouldn't be 
a problem with irqflags tracer. Look at my second post.

Michal


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <1274863724-14906-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-05-26 14:42   ` [PATCH] asm-generic: Use raw_local_irq_save/restore instead local_irq_save/restore Steven Rostedt
2010-05-26 17:08     ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-26 17:11       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-27  7:14         ` Michal Simek
2010-05-27  9:11         ` Yong Zhang
2010-07-26  8:49       ` Michal Simek
2010-07-27 23:18         ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-27 23:54           ` Mike Frysinger
2010-07-28  5:23             ` Michal Simek [this message]
2010-07-28  5:20           ` Michal Simek
2010-07-28  5:35             ` Mike Frysinger

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